[Buildroot] [PATCH] support/download: fetch all refs on full git clone

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Nov 29 17:53:11 UTC 2015


Dear Vivien Didelot,

On Fri,  6 Nov 2015 23:39:24 -0500, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> When specifying BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION, a user may want to
> specify the SHA of a reference different than a branch or tag.
> 
> For instance, Gerrit stores the patchsets under refs/changes/xx/xxx, and
> Github stores the pull requests under refs/pull/xxx/head.
> 
> When cloning a repository with --bare, you don't fetch these references.
> This patch uses --mirror for a full clone, in order to give the user
> access to all references of the Git repository.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot at savoirfairelinux.com>
> ---
>  support/download/git | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to next, thanks.

Thomas
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